Classic Hit Academy –Sun Songs- Walkin’ on the Sun – Smash Mouth

One might mistake this song for frivolous fun party song when in fact it’s about the 1992 Los Angeles Riots.

One of Smash Mouths many hits from the mid 90s, the song was written by the group’s guitarist Greg Camp who said of the song…

“The song was basically a social and racial battle cry. It was a sort of ‘Can’t we all get along?’ song for the time when I wrote it. It was just about all the things that were going on around me as a young person. And I’m, like, God, what is going on? I don’t understand why this is happening. It’s like we might as well be walking around a planet on fire.